Means and method of marking containers for ice cream and the like



March 21, 1933.

MEANS AND METHOD G. F. DICKSON 1,902,543

OF MARKING CONTAINERS FOR ICE CREAM AND THE LIKE Original Filed July 3, 1931 J6 52 J/ Z9 50 2a 53178 00oooooo00000 0 0oooooojoFETaw];o)o 0000? /0 )6 Lm. |:n

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PATENT OFFICE OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 GEORGE A. PEARSON AND LESLIE MUTER, BOTH OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ms AND METHOD or MAnxiNGcoNrAINER-s ron ICE CREAM AND THE LIKE Orlglmfl application filed July 8, 1931, SerialNo. 548,577. Divided and this application filed March 18, 1932. Serial No. 599,835.

The present invention has to do with a means and a method of marking the surfaces of ice cream and other containers. It has'particularly to do with the placing of indicia thereon and particularly changeable indicia upon the cover parts for such containers.

In applications for Letters Patent heretofore filed by the present applicant, there have been described means and methods for the production of ice cream and other containers from wood pulp, processes whereby such containers may be made heat conductive and not insulators, and formulae for obtaining the last described result.

As the container heretofore described is intended to be assembled in an ice cream plant or other plant just anterior to use, and

because there has always been an insufiicient means for quickly and accurately identifying the flavor of ice cream after it has been packaged in containers, the present invention has been conceived to provlde a ready means for marking ice cream packages and other containers. As the ice cream which 1s sold in this country is of several well known new and unique device for stamping containers or the like with changeable indicia;

and an improved apparatus for marking changeable data upon a container cover and concurrently forcing the cover into position into a container.

These objects, and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, are obtained by the novel construction, unique combination, and

improved arrangement of the several elepanying drawing, the said single form of the invention therein illustrated being same reference characters.

In association with the machine to be hereinafter described, it is customary but not necessary to provide a conveyor system for bringing containers one at a time to the machine and to carry such containers away after each has been marked. Such conveyor system in the present instance comprises a roller conveyor of a well known type. It includes standards or brackets 10 secured to a floor or other support 11.

Longitudinal members 12 are secured to the standards or brackets 10, and provide journals for rollers 13 which reach from one horizontal member 12 to another.

Any suitable prime mover, not shown, may be employed to actuate the rollers 13, gearing 14 being shown to illustrate the manner of. transferring the energy of the prime mover to the conveyor system.

Ice cream containers or other containers 15, after being filled are conveyed alon the rollers 13 from a depositor, or other filling apparatus, not shown, to the machine forming the subject matter of the present application.

From a base 16, a standard 17 projects vertically. Adjustable therealong is a bracket 18, there being in bracket 18 a set screw 19 which projects therethrough to engage the standard 17 to maintain the bracket 18 in any selected position.

The outer end of the bracket 18 includes a platform 19 upon which a container 15 is seated when being marked in the present On each side of the platfonn 20 are tends below the level of the rollers 42 uni mclines 21 and 22, the former to assist in the that upon the sections 44 and 45 coming in elev ation of the containers 15 from the rollto contact with the cover 55 of a container 7 Z 34 Al e a et em 0. H h P l! ge -wil be e d y f N j ml g oyer. rmbut as eng mentbe;

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2. Cap seating and, marking apparatus comprising a standard, a head on said standard, a branding'die in said head, means for heating said branding die, means for maintaining said branding die in fixed contact wth a cap, and means for rotating said head while said branding die is so positioned.

3. Cap seating and marking apparatus comprising a standard, a head on said standard, branding dies in said head and adapted to move longitudinally therewith, means for heating said branding dies, and means for rotating said head relatively to said branding dies.

4. Cap seating and marking apparatus comprising a head, a branding die in said head, means for heating said branding die, and means for rotating said head relatively to said branding die.

5. A container topping device having a head movable into a container, and means for branding a top as said head moves such top into a container and into a selected position therein.

6. A container capping and marking device COIIIPIlSlIlg a conveyor, :1. marklng device in the path of said conveyor, said marking device having a standard, brackets thereon, a head supported by said brackets, said head having therein a fixed branding die and a removable branding die, and means for forcing a cap into a container in said conve or as said dies brand said top.

i. In combination, a cap seating and marking device comprising a standard, a head movable therealong and having rollers to engage a cap, dies in said head, and means for rotating said rollers around said die.

8. The combination described in claim 7, and in which said rollers are movable axially of said head.

GEORGE F. DIOKSON. 

